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East Chadic etymology :
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Proto-EChadic: *hVbal-
Meaning: 'weaken'
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Afroasiatic etymology :
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Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ḥVbVl-
Meaning: to be ill; labour, travail
Notes: Both phonetically and semantically doubtful. Cf. Kogan Review.
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Semitic etymology :
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Number: 915
Proto-Semitic: *ḥVbVl-
Meaning: to be pregnant, conceive; to labour, travail
Hebrew: ḥbl (piʕ) 'to be pregnant' [KB 286]
Judaic Aramaic: ḥăbal 'to travail' [Ja 420]
Syrian Aramaic: ḥǝbal 'parturivit; concepit' [Brock 210]
Mandaic Aramaic: hamblat 'she laboured' (under HBL, HMBL paʕ), mhambla 'a convulsed labouring woman' [DM 129]. Not distinguished from HBL, HMBL 'to destroy' [ibid.] (< *h_bl)
Arabic: ḥbl 'concevoir, devenir enceinte, grosse (d'un foetus)' [BK 1 370]. Note that the first meaning of the verb is quoted as 'être plein, être rempli' [ibid.]. Cf. ḥml 'être grosse, enceinte' [BK 1 494] very likely derived from ḥml 'to carry, to bear', but possibly under the influence of the present root (cf. [Maizel 151])
Notes: Only C. SEM. Note GEZ ḥab(a)la 'to be dissolute, lustful' [LGz 223]; derived by Leslau from ḥab(a)la 'to act craftily, tell a lie, plot' (< SEM *h_bl).
Quite likely connected with *ḥa(n)bal- 'umblical cord, foetus', No. . Cf. *hbl (may it be a variant root with ḥ/h and a meaning shift ?): ARB mahbil- 'orifice de l'utérus, ou l'utérus lui-même où repose le foetus' [BK 2 1383]; MHR hǝbūl '(bull) to mount (a cow); (young man's sl.) to have a woman' [JM 151], JIB hɔ̄l '(bull) to mount (a cow)' [JJ 94]; note that GEZ hababāli 'dissolu, lascive, adultère' compared with this root in [DRS 359] is likely a wrong transcription of the form ḥababāli (cf. [LGz 223]).
[KB 286]: HBR, ARM, ARB; [Brock 210]: ARM, HBR, ARB. Cf. Sem. DB *ḥVbVl- (?)
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Central Chadic etymology :
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Proto-CChadic: *bVl(Vl)- (? < *HVbVl-)
Meaning: 'weakness' 1, 'be paralised' 2
Mofu-Gudur: bǝlé 1 [BMof]
Mafa=Matakam: bólola 2 [BMaf]
Zime-Batna: Cf. hurbú 2 [Sa] (<*hulb-?)
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